Watching the year’s young fawns roam around the yard normally is among the many delights of life on Six Mile Lake. But not in early October. Not seeing one this small, with spots still vivid, while all other deer around it sported the solid gray coats better suited for the coming ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Hunters are reminded that Michigan offers 13 grouse enhanced management sites across the Upper Peninsula, which are large blocks of land with young forests open to hunting. GEMS feature accessible walking trails. They also have parking lots with local area information ...

eam Marshfield Medical Center Dickinson, from left, John Cox, Gino Venditti, Jesse Wery and Pete Anderson, claimed bragging rights at the Kiwanis Ski Club Sporting Clays Challenge. The event was held at United Sportsmen’s Club in Merriman and featured a 10-station challenge as well as a ...

IRON MOUNTAIN — Fishing action has picked up, including good reports on walleye, northern pike and bass. Walleyes were hitting on crawlers and sucker minnows, said Fay Whisler at Whisler Outdoors in Florence, Wis. “There were some nice keepers caught over the past week,” she said ...

ESCANABA — A brand new event being held in the Ruth Butler Building at the U.P. State Fairgrounds this weekend promises to bring the best of ice fishing and hunting to Escanaba. The first-ever U.P. Ice Fishing and Hunting Expo, which is sponsored by the Daily Press in conjunction with ...

MARQUETTE — The Michigan Natural Resources Commission will meet Thursday in Marquette, starting at 9 a.m. Eastern time in NC Peninsula Room II at Northern Michigan University, 1401 Presque Isle Ave. There will be updates on U.P. wildlife habitat, wolf management and spring turkey ...